Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke

The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 22 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Linda Jezek of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Women's 200 metre backstroke at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 22 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Canada
«1979
1987»

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on August 22.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Amy White United States2:15.66GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Susan Walsh United States2:15.94
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Barbara McBain Canada2:18.93
4Michelle MacPherson Canada2:19.41
5Teresa Rivera Mexico2:25.82
6Karen Brands Peru2:26.01NR
7Sandra Barbato Uruguay2:33.29
8Jean Franseschi Puerto Rico2:34.86

References

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  1. 1 2 "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  2. Hickoksports Deprecated link archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. Hickosports Results
  4. All Pan medalists - Male
  5. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  6. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.